Dr. Mordecai Ogada is a Kenyan carnivore ecologist and conservation policy scholar with over 25 years’ experience in Kenya and other parts of Africa, mainly on human-wildlife conflict issues. His current work focuses on the challenges of racism and other prejudices in the global conservation arena. He also researches and writes extensively on the ethical challenges of the global climate movement, including the protection of the ownership rights of indigenous people in the Global South over their natural heritage. He is the co-author of The Big Conservation Lie (2016) with John Mbaria and author of Green and Evil (2025). Dr. Ogada lives in Nanyuki, Kenya and is a keen student of African socio-political history.